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Monthly Archives: June 2017

Russia and India have specified the shipyards for building Project 11356 missile-carrying frigates intended for the Indian Navy, the press office of Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation told TASS on Friday. The relevant contract on the purchase of missile frigates from Russia may be signed this year, the press office added. “The…

The United States has cleared the sale of Guardian drones to India after the Modi-Trump meeting in Washington on last Monday, their first bilateral since the US president took office last year. Here are top facts about this predatory machine: 1. The Predatory Guardian drones became operational on 1 May 2007. 2. The drone was…

The last time India and China were engaged in a major military stand-off in Sikkim was in 1967. On that instance, just five years after India’s traumatic 1962 war defeat, the Indian Army gave the Chinese a bloody nose, according to accounts from the time. More than 80 Indian soldiers were killed, while estimates say…

Highlights Pakistan banning JuD’s proxy outfit could well be seen as a response to the Donald Trump administration hinting a harder line against Islamabad It also comes ahead of an intergovernmental body updating its assessment of ‘high-risk and non-cooperative jurisdictions’ involved in terror financing Pakistan has banned terrorist Hafiz Saeed-backed outfit Tehreek-eAzadi-Jammu & Kashmir, a…

India today issued an 11-point letter to bust China’s allegation that Indian troops had crossed the boundary line in the Sikkim sector of the India-China frontier and entered Chinese territory. Here are the 11 points mentioned in the letter issued by the Ministry of External Affairs. 1. On June 16, a PLA construction party entered…

Bhutan today accused China of directly violating the agreement between them by constructing a road inside its territory. In a strongly worded statement, Bhutan also asked China to stop constructing the motorable road from Dokola in the Doklam area towards the Bhutan Army camp at Zompelri which it says affects the process of demarcating the…

Around 150-200 Indian and Chinese Army troops each are separated by merely four to five meters from each other in the Doka La area, where the two forces are engaged in a stand-off since early June after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) destroyed an Indian bunker there. “Both sides are sitting too close for…